Word: churchman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guest of honor at a dinner at the Astor Hotel given by The Churchman, Protestant
Episcopal magazine, which gave her its annual award for "Promotion of Good Will and Understanding Among All Peoples," she heard herself praised for her "genius of goodness," heard even more hearty praise from The Churchman's Dr. Shipler...
...Against him across the Potomac was an army which could probably have taken Washington in the first weeks of the war, and a commander who outguessed and outfought every Union General. Sandburg on Lee: "Enfolded in the churchman and the Christian gentleman, Robert E. Lee was the ancient warrior who sprang forth and struck and cut and mangled as if to tear the guts and heart out of the enemy. . . ." The Union General George Brinton McClellan, who prudently chose to fight a war of attrition, never meeting Lee if he could help it without overwhelming superiority in manpower, caused Lincoln...
Bishop Manning's last point was demonstrably true. Last fortnight the ''Protestant-minded" Churchman suggested that attacks upon the Concordat may be motivated by a wish to wreck "a pact which would make more difficult the Romanization of the Anglican communion." The "Catholic-minded" Living Church has been critical ever since, last summer, it heard that grape juice had been used at communion at a unity conference in Berkeley, Calif.-in the diocese of liberal Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons, chairman of the Concordat commission...
Stanchest supporter of Dutch Premier Dr. Hendrikus Colijn is his soverign, Queen Wilhelmina. Dr. Colijn is a devout Calvinist and a churchman who knows his Bible backwards and forwards. Her Majesty is the apotheosis of Protestantism e conservative, strong-willed Premier believes in balanced budgets, light taxes and a strong currency even in these days of cockeyed national finances; this seems the essence of good sense to the thrifty Queen...